Cruz: Obama 'plans' to give Guantanamo back to Cuba

Ted Cruz is suggesting President Barack Obama is going to give the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base back to Cuba.

“I fear by the end of this year President Obama plans to give the Guantanamo Navy Base back to Cuba. I hope he doesn’t do that,” the Texas senator said. “I think it is a profound risk.”

“The people in Guantanamo at this point, it’s down to the worst of the worst. A really alarming percentage of the people released from Guantanamo return immediately to waging Jihad, return immediately to going back trying to murder Americans,” Cruz said.

The Republican presidential candidate, who was speaking during CNN’s Town Hall on Wednesday night, was asked about news that Obama is going to Cuba next month. “Not as long as the Castros are in power,” he said when asked if he would travel to the country.

Cruz is of Cuban descent, and he said his family “has seen firsthand the evil and oppression in Cuba.”

“I was saddened to hear but I wasn’t surprised,” Cruz said about the visit, adding the president is going “to essentially act as an apologist.”